DBMS > Derby vs. Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Dgraph vs. Ingres vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

InterSystems

SAP

Initial release

1997

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

11.2, May 2022

2023.3, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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